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A. BOTTGER.

GLOVE FASTENING. No. 251,515. Patented Dec. 27,1881.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR v ATTORNEY NITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

AUGUSTUS 'norrenn, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,515, dated December27, 1881. Application filed June 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS BOTTGER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of New York, in the county and State of New York,have invented an Improved Glove- Fastening; and Ihereby declare thefollowing to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for fastening thetops of gloves after they have been put on the hand, and is designed asa substitute for the ordinary buttons and to avoid the inconveniencesattending the use of buttons for that purpose; and the object of theinvention is to provide means by which the glove can be fastenedconveniently and rapidly, and which will at the same time add to theelegance of its appearance. It is more especially designed to be appliedto ladies kid-gloves, especially to those which have tops that extendsome distance above the wrist, but is equally applicable to other kindsof gloves, as well as to corsets and similar articles.

The improvementconsists in a series ofstuds of peculiar construction,hereinafter particularly described, which are secured on each side ofthe usual longitudinal slit or opening at the wrist of the glove,inconnection with an elastic lace or string having heads or stops securedthereon, which said beads engage with slots formed in the studs in sucha manner that no tying of the end of the lace is necessary, all of whichis hereinafter particularlydescribed and set forth.

I am aware that laces or strings passing over studs have been used forfastening shoes and gloves; but in that case the lace or string isnon-elastic and is simply passed over a series of plain studs, andconsequently the end of the lace has to be tied after it has been passedover the studs. That I do not use nor claim, and by my improvementvarious defects and difficultiesincident to that mode are avoided. By myimprovement the rigidity of the fastening is removed and the same ismade elastic, and the construction is such that no tying of the end ofthe lace is requisite, as the latter is locked at each stud and heldsecurely the glove, drawn to a larger scale. 'Figs.3 and 4 are verticalsections of one of the studs, taken at right angles to each other; Fig.5, a sectional view of stud before being secured to the glove, and Fig.6 a sectional view of one of the beads.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the severalfigures, and the studs in each (excepting Fig. 1) are drawn largerthanthe actual size.

A represents a glove, and b the usual slit or opening at the wrist.

D D are a series of slotted studs, hereinafter particularly described,secured on each side of the opening I); and f is an elastic lace orstring, upon which, at regular intervals, are secured beads or stops 9.which enter the slots in the studs and are held thereby. The studs onone side of the opening are placed in such position in relation to thoseon theother side that the lace y", when passed from side to side over orthrough the studs, may lie at an angle of about forty-five degrees withthe line of the opening I); or, if preferred, it may cross at aboutright angles thereto. The top of the slots din the studs is just ofsufficient width to admit the lace; but their lower portion is madewider and of conical form, so as to admit a portion of one of the heads9 on the lace, the said head being held in the said slot, and the laceis thereby locked at each stud when passed from side to side, as shownin Figs. 1 and 2, the beads being placed at a distance from each other alittle less than the distance between a stud on one side and the nextstud on the other side, so that the tension of the elastic lace willkeep the beads engaged with the slots in the studs and prevent theirbecoming disconnected. By means of this construction and arrangement theend of the lace does not need to be tied, but remains locked ateverystud, whether the glove is laced all the length of the opening or onlypart of the way.

The studs maybe secured to the hodyof the glove by any suitable means;but the preferred mode is to form a tube, m, at the lower end of thesame, as shown in Fig. 5, which, after having been passed through theleather, is pressed open and down upon the leather, as shown in Figs. 3and 4, in the usual manner employed in inserting eyelets. The heads 9are made of metal or other compressible material, and the opening 0 ismade narrower at its middle than at its ends, as shown in Fig. 6, sothat when one of them has been passed over the lace to the positionthereon it is to occupy it is pressed so as to bite upon the lace, andis therebyheld in position without cutting or fraying the lace. Infastening the glove the laceis slightly stretched and laid into theslots d, (see Figs. 1 and 2,) and when released the beads enter theslots and the lace remains locked.

What I claim as my invention is Afastening for gloves and otherarticles, composed of a double series of studs, D D, provided with slotsat and an elastic lace or string, f, having beads or stops g, secured atproper intervals thereupon, to engage with the said slots, allconstructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, for thepurposes set forth.

AUGUSTUS BOTTGER.

Witnesses:

M. H. TOPPING, JOHN S. THORNTON.

